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Chapter 14. Attention and Consciousness
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James Gorman Evidence has been mounting for a while that birds and other animals can count, particularly when the things being counted are items of food. But most of the research is done under controlled conditions. In a recent experiment with New Zealand robins, Alexis Garland and Jason Low at Victoria University of Wellington tested the birds in a natural setting, giving them no training and no rewards, and showed that they knew perfectly well when a scientist had showed them two mealworms in a box, but then delivered only one. The researchers reported the work this fall in the journal Behavioural Processes. The experiment is intriguing to watch, partly because it looks like a child's magic trick. The apparatus used is a wooden box that has a sliding drawer. After clearly showing a robin that she was dropping two mealworms in a circular well in the box, Dr. Garland would slide in the drawer. It covered the two worms with an identical-looking circular well containing only one worm. When the researcher moved away and the robin flew down and lifted off a cover, it would find only one worm. The robins pecked intensely at the box, behavior they didn't show if they found the two worms they were expecting. Earlier experiments had also shown the birds to be good at counting, and Dr. Garland said that one reason might be that they are inveterate thieves. Mates, in particular, steal from one another's food caches, where they hide perishable prey like worms or insects. "If you've got a mate that steals 50 or more percent of your food," she said, you'd better learn how to keep track of how many mealworms you've got. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Intelligence; Evolution
Link ID: 20324 - Posted: 11.18.2014
By Anna North Do you devour the latest neuroscience news, eager to learn more about how your brain works? Or do you click past it to something else, something more applicable to your life? If you're in the latter camp, you may be in the majority. A new study suggests that many people just don't pay that much attention to brain science, and its findings may raise a question: Is "neuro-literacy" really necessary? At Wired, Christian Jarrett writes, "It feels to me like interest in the brain has exploded." He cites the prevalence of the word "brain" in headlines as well as "the emergence of new fields such as neuroleadership, neuroaesthetics and neuro-law." But as a neuroscience writer, he notes, he may be "heavily biased" — and in fact, some research "suggests neuroscience has yet to make an impact on most people's everyday lives." For instance, he reports, Cliodhna O'Connor and Helene Joffe recently interviewed 48 Londoners about brain science for a paper published in the journal Science Communication. Anyone who thinks we live in an era of neuro-fixation may find the results a bit of a shock. Said one participant in the research: "Science of the brain? I haven't a clue. Nothing at all. I'd be lying if I said there was." Another: "Brain research I understand, an image of, I don't know, a monkey or a dog with like the top of their head off and electrodes and stuff on their brain." And another: "I might have seen it on the news or something, you know, some report of some description. But because they probably mentioned the word 'science,' or 'We're going to go now to our science correspondent Mr. Lala,' that's probably when I go, okay, it's time for me to make a cup of tea." According to the study authors, 71 percent of respondents "took pains to convey that neuroscience was not salient in their day-to-day life: it was 'just not really on my radar.'" Some respondents associated brain research with scientists in white coats or with science classes (asked to free-associate about the term "brain research," one respondent drew a mean-faced stick figure labeled "cross teacher"). And 42 percent saw science as something alien to them, removed from their own lives. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Miscellaneous
Link ID: 20315 - Posted: 11.15.2014
By ALAN SCHWARZ CONCORD, Calif. — Every time Matthias is kicked out of a school or day camp for defying adults and clashing with other children, his mother, Joelle Kendle, inches closer to a decision she dreads. With each morning of arm-twisting and leg-flailing as she tries to get him dressed and out the door for first grade, the temptation intensifies. Ms. Kendle is torn over whether to have Matthias, just 6 and already taking the stimulant Adderall for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, go on a second and more potent medication: the antipsychotic Risperdal. Her dilemma is shared by a steadily rising number of American families who are using multiple psychotropic drugs — stimulants, antipsychotics, antidepressants and others — to temper their children's troublesome behavior, even though many doctors who mix such medications acknowledge that little is known about the overall benefits and risks for children. In 2012 about one in 54 youngsters ages 6 through 17 covered by private insurance was taking at least two psychotropic medications — a rise of 44 percent in four years, according to Express Scripts, which processes prescriptions for 85 million Americans. Academic studies of children covered by Medicaid have also found higher rates and growth. Combined, the data suggest that about one million children are currently taking various combinations of psychotropics. Risks of antipsychotics alone, for example, are known to include substantial weight gain and diabetes. Stimulants can cause appetite suppression, insomnia and, far more infrequently, hallucinations. Some combinations of medication classes, like antipsychotics and antidepressants, have shown improved benefits (for psychotic depression) but also heightened risks (for heart rhythm disturbances). But this knowledge has been derived substantially from studies in adults — children are rarely studied because of concerns about safety and ethics — leaving many experts worried that the use of multiple psychotropics in youngsters has not been explored fully. There is also debate over whether the United States Food and Drug Administration's database of patients' adverse drug reactions reliably monitors the hazards of psychotropic drug combinations, primarily because only a small fraction of cases are ever reported. Some clinicians are left somewhat queasy about relying mostly on anecdotal reports of benefit and harm. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: ADHD; Schizophrenia
Link ID: 20314 - Posted: 11.15.2014
By Paula Span A few days after I wrote about conditions that can mimic dementia, reader Sue Murray emailed me from Westchester County. Her subject line: "Have you heard of Charles Bonnet Syndrome?" I hadn't, and until about six months ago, neither had Ms. Murray. Her mother Elizabeth, who is 91, has glaucoma and macular degeneration, and has been gradually losing her vision, Ms. Murray explained. So at first, her family was excited when Elizabeth seemed to be seeing things more clearly. Maybe, they thought, her vision was returning. But the things she was seeing — patterns and colors, strangers, a green man — weren't there. She insisted that "there were people in the cellar, people on the porch, people in the house," Ms. Murray said. "She'd point and say, 'Don't you see them?' And she'd get mad when we didn't." Elizabeth and her husband Victor, 95, live in Connecticut, in a house they bought 50 years ago. For a while, the Green Man, as Elizabeth began calling him, seemed to have moved in, too. "She'd start hiding things in the closet so the Green Man wouldn't take them," Ms. Murray said. "There wasn't any real fear; it was just, 'Look at that!'" Elizabeth's ophthalmologist promptly supplied the name for this condition: Charles Bonnet Syndrome, named for a Swiss philosopher who described such visual hallucinations in the 18th century. "We were relieved," said Ms. Murray. What they feared, of course, was mental illness or dementia. "To have an eye doctor say, 'I'm familiar with this,' it's still jarring but it's not so terrible." Bonnet Syndrome (pronounced Boh-NAY) isn't terribly rare, it turns out. Oliver Sacks described several cases in his 2012 book, "Hallucinations." Dr. Abdhish Bhavsar, a clinical spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a retina specialist in Minneapolis, estimates that he has probably seen about 200 patients with the syndrome over 17 years of practice. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision; Attention
Link ID: 20297 - Posted: 11.10.2014
By Meeri Kim Patients suffering from pagophagia compulsively crave and chomp on ice, even scraping buildup off freezer walls for a fix. The disorder appears to be caused by an iron deficiency, and supplements of the mineral tend to ease the cravings. But what is it about ice that makes it so irresistible? A new study proposes that, like a strong cup of coffee, ice may give those with insufficient iron a much-needed mental boost. Fatigue is the most common symptom of iron-deficiency anemia, which occurs when the body can't produce enough oxygen-carrying hemoglobin because of low iron. "I had a friend who was suffering from iron-deficiency anemia who was just crunching through massive amounts of ice a day," said study author Melissa Hunt, a clinical psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. "She said: 'It's like a cup of coffee. I don't feel awake until I have a cup of ice in my hand.' " Hunt and her colleagues had both anemic and healthy subjects complete a standardized, 22-minute attention test commonly used to diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Just before the test, participants were given either a cup of ice or lukewarm water to consume. Iron-deficient subjects who had sipped on water performed far more slugglishly on the test than controls, as expected. But those who ate ice beforehand did just as well as their healthy counterparts. For healthy subjects, having a cup of ice instead of water appeared to make no difference in test performance. "It's not like craving a dessert. It's more like needing a cup of coffee or that cigarette," Hunt said.
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 20296 - Posted: 11.10.2014
By Katy Waldman How much control do you have over how much control you think you have? The researchers Michael R. Ent and Roy F. Baumeister have been studying what makes a person more or less likely to believe in free will. Is it a deep connection to the philosophy of David Hume? An abiding faith in divine omnipotence? Try a really, really full bladder. In an online survey, 81 adults ages 18 to 70 reported the extent to which they felt hungry, tired, desirous of sex, and desirous of a toilet. They then rated the extent to which they considered themselves in command of their destinies. People experiencing intense physical needs were less likely to say they believed in free will. People who were not inexplicably taking an online survey while desperately holding in their pee (or starving, or wanting sex, or trying to stay awake) mostly claimed that the universe had handed them the keys to their lives. Also, people who brought their laptops with them into the bathroom to fill out the survey reported that they were God. (I kid on that last part.) Ent and Baumeister also used a survey to take the free will temperature of 23 people with panic disorder, 16 people with epilepsy, and 35 healthy controls. Those suffering from the two conditions—both of which can unpredictably plunge the mind into chaos—tended to put less stock in the notion of mental autonomy. There was a third experiment, too. I said earlier that people not taking an online survey while jonesing for various creature comforts mostly claimed that they wore the metaphysical pants. However, despite robust results for horniness, fatigue, and needing-to-go-ness, Ent and Baumeister didn't initially see much correlation between people's philosophical visions and their hunger levels. So they re-administered the survey to 112 new volunteers, some of whom were dieting and some of whom were not. © 2014 The Slate Group LLC.
Keyword: Consciousness
Link ID: 20294 - Posted: 11.10.2014
By Greg Miller This robot causes people to experience the illusory sensation of someone standing behind them. © Alain Herzog/EPFL People who've stared death in the face and lived to tell about it—mountain climbers who've made a harrowing descent, say, or survivors of the World Trade Center attacks—sometimes report that just when their situation seemed impossible, a ghostly presence appeared. People with schizophrenia and certain types of neurological damage sometimes report similar experiences, which scientists call, aptly, "feeling of presence." Now a team of neuroscientists says it has identified a set of brain regions that seems to be involved in generating this illusion. Better yet, they've built a robot that can cause ordinary people to experience it in the lab. The team was led by Olaf Blanke, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Blanke has a long-standing interest in creepy illusions of bodily perception. Studying these bizarre phenomena, he says, could point to clues about the biology of mental illness and the mechanisms of human consciousness. In 2006, for example, Blanke and colleagues published a paper in Nature that had one of the best titles you'll ever see in a scientific journal: "Induction of an illusory shadow person." In that study, they stimulated the brain of a young woman who was awaiting brain surgery for severe epilepsy. Surgeons had implanted electrodes on the surface of her brain to monitor her seizures, and when the researchers passed a mild current through the electrodes, stimulating a small region at the intersection of the temporal and parietal lobes of her brain, she experienced what she described as a shadowy presence lurking nearby, mimicking her own posture. Colored areas indicate regions of overlap in the lesions of neurological patients who experienced feeling of presence illusions. © 2014 Condé Nast.
Keyword: Attention; Emotions
Link ID: 20290 - Posted: 11.08.2014
By Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Consciousness; Robotics
Link ID: 20287 - Posted: 11.08.2014
|By Lindsey Konkel and Environmental Health News New York City children exposed in the womb to high levels of pollutants in vehicle exhaust had a five times higher risk of attention problems at age 9, according to research by Columbia University scientists published Wednesday. The study adds to earlier evidence that mothers' exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are emitted by the burning of fossil fuels and other organic materials, are linked to children's behavioral problems associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). "Our research suggests that environmental factors may be contributing to attention problems in a significant way," said Frederica Perera, an environmental health scientist at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health who was the study's lead author. About one in 10 U.S. kids is diagnosed with ADHD, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children with ADHD are at greater risk of poor academic performance, risky behaviors and lower earnings in adulthood, the researchers wrote. "Air pollution has been linked to adverse effects on attention span, behavior and cognitive functioning in research from around the globe. There is little question that air pollutants may pose a variety of potential health risks to children of all ages, possibly beginning in the womb," said Dr. Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York. He did not participate in the new study. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: ADHD; Neurotoxins
Link ID: 20285 - Posted: 11.06.2014
by Helen Thomson A MAN with the delusional belief that an impostor has taken his wife's place is helping shed light on how we recognise loved ones. Capgras syndrome is a rare condition in which a person insists that a person they are close to – most commonly a spouse – has been replaced by an impostor. Sometimes they even believe that a much-loved pet has also been replaced by a lookalike. Anecdotal evidence suggests that people with Capgras only misidentify the people that they are closest to. Chris Fiacconi at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, and his team wanted to explore this. They performed recognition tests and brain scans on two male volunteers with dementia – one who had Capgras, and one who didn't – and compared the results with those of 10 healthy men of a similar age. For months, the man with Capgras believed that his wife had been replaced by an impostor and was resistant to any counterargument, often asking his son why he was so convinced that the woman was his mother. First the team tested whether or not the volunteers could recognise celebrities they would have been familiar with throughout their lifetime, such as Marilyn Monroe. Volunteers were presented with celebrities' names, voices or pictures, and asked if they recognised them and, if so, how much information they could recall about that person. The man with Capgras was more likely to misidentify the celebrities by face or voice compared with the volunteer without Capgras, or the 10 healthy men. None of the volunteers had problems identifying celebrities by name (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, doi.org/wrw). © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Attention; Consciousness
Link ID: 20284 - Posted: 11.06.2014
By Christian Jarrett It feels to me like interest in the brain has exploded. I've seen huge investments in brain science by the USA and Europe (the BRAIN Initiative and the Human Brain Project), I've read about the rise in media coverage of neuroscience, and above all, I've noticed how journalists and bloggers now often frame stories as being about the brain as opposed to the person. Look at these recent headlines: "Why your brain loves storytelling" (Harvard Business Review); "How Netflix is changing our brains" (Forbes); and "Why your brain wants to help one child in need — but not millions" (NPR). There are hundreds more, and in each case, the headline could be about "you" but the writer chooses to make it about "your brain". Consider too the emergence of new fields such as neuroleadership, neuroaesthetics and neuro-law. It was only a matter of time before someone announced that we're in the midst of a neurorevolution. In 2009 Zach Lynch did that, publishing his The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science is Changing Our World. Having said all that, I'm conscious that my own perspective is heavily biased. I earn my living writing about neuroscience and psychology. I'm vigilant for all things brain. Maybe the research investment and brain-obsessed media headlines are largely irrelevant to the general public. I looked into this question recently and was surprised by what I found. There's not a lot of research but that which exists (such as this, on the teen brain) suggests neuroscience has yet to make an impact on most people's everyday lives. Indeed, I made Myth #20 in my new book Great Myths of the Brain "Neuroscience is transforming human self-understanding". WIRED.com © 2014 Condé Nast.
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 20282 - Posted: 11.06.2014
By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN ATTENTION deficit hyperactivity disorder is now the most prevalent psychiatric illness of young people in America, affecting 11 percent of them at some point between the ages of 4 and 17. The rates of both diagnosis and treatment have increased so much in the past decade that you may wonder whether something that affects so many people can really be a disease. And for a good reason. Recent neuroscience research shows that people with A.D.H.D. are actually hard-wired for novelty-seeking — a trait that had, until relatively recently, a distinct evolutionary advantage. Compared with the rest of us, they have sluggish and underfed brain reward circuits, so much of everyday life feels routine and understimulating. To compensate, they are drawn to new and exciting experiences and get famously impatient and restless with the regimented structure that characterizes our modern world. In short, people with A.D.H.D. may not have a disease, so much as a set of behavioral traits that don't match the expectations of our contemporary culture. From the standpoint of teachers, parents and the world at large, the problem with people with A.D.H.D. looks like a lack of focus and attention and impulsive behavior. But if you have the "illness," the real problem is that, to your brain, the world that you live in essentially feels not very interesting. One of my patients, a young woman in her early 20s, is prototypical. "I've been on Adderall for years to help me focus," she told me at our first meeting. Before taking Adderall, she found sitting in lectures unendurable and would lose her concentration within minutes. Like many people with A.D.H.D., she hankered for exciting and varied experiences and also resorted to alcohol to relieve boredom. But when something was new and stimulating, she had laserlike focus. I knew that she loved painting and asked her how long she could maintain her interest in her art. "No problem. I can paint for hours at a stretch." Rewards like sex, money, drugs and novel situations all cause the release of dopamine in the reward circuit of the brain, a region buried deep beneath the cortex. Aside from generating a sense of pleasure, this dopamine signal tells your brain something like, "Pay attention, this is an important experience that is worth remembering." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: ADHD; Learning & Memory
Link ID: 20272 - Posted: 11.03.2014
Maanvi Singh How does a sunset work? We love to look at one, but Jolanda Blackwell wanted her eighth-graders to really think about it, to wonder and question. So Blackwell, who teaches science at Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High in Davis, Calif., had her students watch a video of a sunset on YouTube as part of a physics lesson on motion. "I asked them: 'So what's moving? And why?' " Blackwell says. The students had a lot of ideas. Some thought the sun was moving; others, of course, knew that a sunset is the result of the Earth spinning around on its axis. Once she got the discussion going, the questions came rapid-fire. "My biggest challenge usually is trying to keep them patient," she says. "They just have so many burning questions." Students asking questions and then exploring the answers. That's something any good teacher lives for. And at the heart of it all is curiosity. Blackwell, like many others teachers, understands that when kids are curious, they're much more likely to stay engaged. But why? What, exactly, is curiosity and how does it work? A study published in the October issue of the journal Neuron suggests that the brain's chemistry changes when we become curious, helping us better learn and retain information. © 2014 NPR
Keyword: Learning & Memory; Attention
Link ID: 20271 - Posted: 11.03.2014
By C. NATHAN DeWALL How many words does it take to know you're talking to an adult? In "Peter Pan," J. M. Barrie needed just five: "Do you believe in fairies?" Such belief requires magical thinking. Children suspend disbelief. They trust that events happen with no physical explanation, and they equate an image of something with its existence. Magical thinking was Peter Pan's key to eternal youth. The ghouls and goblins that will haunt All Hallows' Eve on Friday also require people to take a leap of faith. Zombies wreak terror because children believe that the once-dead can reappear. At haunted houses, children dip their hands in buckets of cold noodles and spaghetti sauce. Even if you tell them what they touched, they know they felt guts. And children surmise that with the right Halloween makeup, costume and demeanor, they can frighten even the most skeptical adult. We do grow up. We get jobs. We have children of our own. Along the way, we lose our tendencies toward magical thinking. Or at least we think we do. Several streams of research in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy are converging on an uncomfortable truth: We're more susceptible to magical thinking than we'd like to admit. Consider the quandary facing college students in a clever demonstration of magical thinking. An experimenter hands you several darts and instructs you to throw them at different pictures. Some depict likable objects (for example, a baby), others are neutral (for example, a face-shaped circle). Would your performance differ if you lobbed darts at a baby? It would. Performance plummeted when people threw the darts at the baby. Laura A. King, the psychologist at the University of Missouri who led this investigation, notes that research participants have a "baseless concern that a picture of an object shares an essential relationship with the object itself." Paul Rozin, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that these studies demonstrate the magical law of similarity. Our minds subconsciously associate an image with an object. When something happens to the image, we experience a gut-level intuition that the object has changed as well. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 20253 - Posted: 10.28.2014
Sarah Boseley, health editor A record haul of "smart" drugs, sold to students to enhance their memory and thought processes, stay awake and improve concentration, has been seized from a UK website by the medicines regulator, which is alarmed about the recent rise of such sites. The seizure, worth £200,000, illustrates the increasing internet trade in cognitive enhancement drugs and suggests people who want to stay focused and sharp are moving on from black coffee and legally available caffeine tablets. Most of the seized drugs are medicines that should only be available on a doctor's prescription. One, Sunifiram, is entirely experimental and has never been tested on humans in clinical trials. Investigators from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) are worried at what they see as a new phenomenon – the polished, plausible, commercial website targeting students and others who are looking for a mental edge over the competition. In addition to Ritalin, the drug that helps young people with attention deficit disorder (ADD) focus in class and while writing essays, and Modafinil (sold as Provigil), licensed in the US for people with narcolepsy, they are also offering experimental drugs and research chemicals. MHRA head of enforcement, Alastair Jeffrey, said the increase in people buying cognitive-enhancing drugs or "nootropics" is recent and very worrying. "The idea that people are willing to put their overall health at risk in order to attempt to get an intellectual edge over others is deeply troubling," he said. © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited
Keyword: Drug Abuse; ADHD
Link ID: 20242 - Posted: 10.27.2014
James Hamblin People whose faces are perceived to look more "competent" are more likely to be CEOs of large, successful companies. Having a face that people deem "dominant" is a predictor of rank advancement in the military. People are more likely to invest money with people who look "trustworthy." These sorts of findings go on and on in recent studies that claim people can accurately guess a variety of personality traits and behavioral tendencies from portraits alone. The findings seem to elucidate either canny human intuition or absurd, misguided bias. There has been a recent boom in research on how people attribute social characteristics to others based on the appearance of faces—independent of cues about age, gender, race, or ethnicity. (At least, as independent as possible.) The results seem to offer some intriguing insight, claiming that people are generally pretty good at predicting who is, for example, trustworthy, competent, introverted or extroverted, based entirely on facial structure. There is strong agreement across studies as to what facial attributes mean what to people, as illustrated in renderings throughout this article. But it's, predictably, not at all so simple. Christopher Olivola, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, makes the case against face-ism today, in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences. In light of many recent articles touting people's judgmental abilities, Olivola and Princeton University's Friederike Funk and Alexander Todorov say that a careful look at the data really doesn't support these claims. And "instead of applauding our ability to make inferences about social characteristics from facial appearances," Olivola said, "the focus should be on the dangers."
Keyword: Emotions; Attention
Link ID: 20234 - Posted: 10.23.2014
David DiSalvo @neuronarrative One of the lively debates spawned from the neuroscience revolution has to do with whether humans possess free will, or merely feel as if we do. If we truly possess free will, then we each consciously control our decisions and actions. If we feel as if we possess free will, then our sense of control is a useful illusion—one that neuroscience will increasingly dispel as it gets better at predicting how brain processes yield decisions. For those in the free-will-as-illusion camp, the subjective experience of decision ownership is not unimportant, but it is predicated on neural dynamics that are scientifically knowable, traceable and—in time—predictable. One piece of evidence supporting this position has come from neuroscience research showing that brain activity underlying a given decision occurs before a person consciously apprehends the decision. In other words, thought patterns leading to conscious awareness of what we're going to do are already in motion before we know we'll do it. Without conscious knowledge of why we're choosing as we're choosing, the argument follows, we cannot claim to be exercising "free" will. Those supporting a purer view of free will argue that whether or not neuroscience can trace brain activity underlying decisions, making the decision still resides within the domain of an individual's mind. In this view, parsing unconscious and conscious awareness is less important than the ultimate outcome – a decision, and subsequent action, emerging from a single mind. If free will is drained of its power by scientific determinism, free-will supporters argue, then we're moving down a dangerous path where people can't be held accountable for their decisions, since those decisions are triggered by neural activity occurring outside of conscious awareness. Consider how this might play out in a courtroom in which neuroscience evidence is marshalled to defend a murderer on grounds that he couldn't know why he acted as he did.
Keyword: Consciousness
Link ID: 20232 - Posted: 10.23.2014
By Scott Barry Kaufman "Just because a diagnosis [of ADHD] can be made does not take away from the great traits we love about Calvin and his imaginary tiger friend, Hobbes. In fact, we actually love Calvin BECAUSE of his ADHD traits. Calvin's imagination, creativity, energy, lack of attention, and view of the world are the gifts that Mr. Watterson gave to this character." — The Dragonfly Forest In his 2004 book "Creativity is Forever", Gary Davis reviewed the creativity literature from 1961 to 2003 and identified 22 reoccurring personality traits of creative people. This included 16 "positive" traits (e.g., independent, risk-taking, high energy, curiosity, humor, artistic, emotional) and 6 "negative" traits (e.g., impulsive, hyperactive, argumentative). In her own review of the creativity literature, Bonnie Cramond found that many of these same traits overlap to a substantial degree with behavioral descriptions of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)– including higher levels of spontaneous idea generation, mind wandering, daydreaming, sensation seeking, energy, and impulsivity. Research since then has supported the notion that people with ADHD are more likely to reach higher levels of creative thought and achievement than those without ADHD (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). What's more, recent research by Darya Zabelina and colleagues have found that real-life creative achievement is associated with the ability to broaden attention and have a "leaky" mental filter– something in which people with ADHD excel. Recent work in cognitive neuroscience also suggests a connection between ADHD and creativity (see here and here). Both creative thinkers and people with ADHD show difficulty suppressing brain activity coming from the "Imagination Network": © 2014 Scientific American
By KONIKA BANERJEE and PAUL BLOOM ON April 15, 2013, James Costello was cheering on a friend near the finish line at the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded, severely burning his arms and legs and sending shrapnel into his flesh. During the months of surgery and rehabilitation that followed, Mr. Costello developed a relationship with one of his nurses, Krista D'Agostino, and they soon became engaged. Mr. Costello posted a picture of the ring on Facebook. "I now realize why I was involved in the tragedy," he wrote. "It was to meet my best friend, and the love of my life." Mr. Costello is not alone in finding meaning in life events. People regularly do so for both terrible incidents, such as being injured in an explosion, and positive ones, like being cured of a serious disease. As the phrase goes, everything happens for a reason. Where does this belief come from? One theory is that it reflects religious teachings — we think that events have meaning because we believe in a God that plans for us, sends us messages, rewards the good and punishes the bad. But research from the Yale Mind and Development Lab, where we work, suggests that this can't be the whole story. In one series of studies, recently published in the journal Cognition, we asked people to reflect on significant events from their own lives, such as graduations, the births of children, falling in love, the deaths of loved ones and serious illnesses. Unsurprisingly, a majority of religious believers said they thought that these events happened for a reason and that they had been purposefully designed (presumably by God). But many atheists did so as well, and a majority of atheists in a related study also said that they believed in fate — defined as the view that life events happen for a reason and that there is an underlying order to life that determines how events turn out. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 20219 - Posted: 10.20.2014
By Smitha Mundasad Health reporter, BBC News Scientists have uncovered hidden signatures in the brains of people in vegetative states that suggest they may have a glimmer of consciousness. Doctors normally consider these patients - who have severe brain injuries - to be unaware of the world around them although they appear awake. Researchers hope their work will help identify those who are actually conscious, but unable to communicate. Their report appears in PLoS Computational Biology. After catastrophic brain injuries, for example due to car crashes or major heart attacks, some people can appear to wake up yet do not respond to events around them. Doctors describe these patients as being in a vegetative state. Patients typically open their eyes and look around, but cannot react to commands or make any purposeful movements. Some people remain in this state for many years. But a handful of recent studies have questioned this diagnosis - suggesting some patients may actually be aware of what is going on around them, but unable to communicate. A team of scientists at Cambridge University studied 13 patients in vegetative states, mapping the electrical activity of their nerves using a mesh of electrodes applied to their scalps. The electrical patterns and connections they recorded were then compared with healthy volunteers. The study reveals four of the 13 patients had an electrical signature that was very similar to those seen in the volunteers. Dr Srivas Chennu, who led the research, said: "This suggests some of the brain networks that support consciousness in healthy adults may be well-preserved in a number of people in persistent vegetative state too." BBC © 2014
Keyword: Consciousness
Link ID: 20217 - Posted: 10.18.2014


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i just got back from a f2f interview in dallas, and it was pretty easy i was so nervous and studies for days before. but i got there sat in a table with 3 other people. out of 250,000 applicants they only had 7 of us for the f2f interview that day so i think that was a good sign. We started off with an ice breaker all of the recruiters were really nice and welcoming. We had to introduce our selves and present the group activity to the room. Then we had a 5 min break and broke up into groups of three to be interviewed individually, went back into the main room watched a video about the benefits of working for the company. And then 3 people were called out of the room, and i never saw them again. And the 4 of us left in the room went to go get our fingerprints and fill out back ground test papers then were each called individually, i went to go do the reach test then was brought into the room to and had a small interview again which were more like suitability questions. about being able to follow the company's rule about piercings and tattoos and then asked about previous jobs, and that was it. Was told i would receive an email within the next week about the hire, so i guess maybe they are waiting for the back ground check to come in. I think i might have gotten the job, considering i was finger printed.
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Comic Tells One Too Many Jokes About Her Mother-in-Law
According to the AP, Croonquist's mother-in-law Ruth Zafrin accuses her of spreading defamatory and racist lies through the many zingers she has used during her lengthy career.
The action seeks unspecified damages and demands that Croonquist remove any offensive statements from her Web site, routines and recordings. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey back in April and judge is scheduled to hear a motion to dismiss on Sept. 8.
Croonquist is half-black, half-Swedish, grew up Roman Catholic and married into a Jewish family -- an absolute perfect storm of possible punchlines. She tells the AP that in-law jokes just come natural to her.
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The one where her mom-in-law reacts to her being pregnant: "OK, now that we know you're having a little girl I want to know what you're naming that little tchotchke. Now we don't want a name that's difficult to pronounce like Shaniqua. We're thinking a name short but delicious. Like Hadassah or Goldie."
The one where she visits her mom-in-law's house for the first time: "I walk in, I say, 'Thank you so much for having me here, Ruthie.' She says, 'The pleasure's all mine, have a seat.'" Then, in a loud aside, 'Harriet, put my pocketbook away.'"
The one where she talks about their differences: "I'm a black woman with a Jewish mother-in-law. Now you know the only thing we have in common, is that we don't wanna get our hair wet. Haaaaaaaay!
"They're nice jokes. There's nothing bad, nothing defamatory," swears Croonquist, who converted to Judaism before she met her husband and keeps a kosher house in Los Angeles.
The lawsuit was filed by mother-in-law Ruth Zafrin, her daughter, Shelley Edelman, and Shelley's husband, Neil. Neither Zafrin, the Edelmans nor their attorney, Lawrence H. Wertheim, returned calls for comment.
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- Tuesday 25 AugustBy TiggerLowest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Some logic today for you..
Behar is an idiot same with Rivers ergo you are an idiot too... - Wednesday 26 AugustBy AmandaHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Seriously, do people have nothing better to worry about? That's too bad that her feelings got hurt but suck it up and move on! Life is too short to get upset over your daughter in laws jokes! What in the hell is this country coming too? So, now the mother in law is starting a trend where we can just sue someone if we don't like what they say?!?!?! GET A F**KING LIFE! There are more important things to worry about...just be glad you have a home, food, water, clean clothes...there are plenty who are worse off than you "old lady" (mother in law) so quit crying and grow the F-UP!!!!
- Wednesday 26 AugustBy TraciHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I thought she was hilarious!!! The are just jokes. Lighten up people.
- Wednesday 26 AugustBy CindyHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I agree! She is a riot!! Being jewish myself I don't understand why the family isn't laughing and supporting their daughter in laws career. Sueing her own daughter in law is the exact reason Jewish people get made fun of!
- Wednesday 26 AugustBy BrissyHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Behar and Rivers are legend, Tigger you are the idiot here!!! Why do we deal with morons in 2009???
- Wednesday 26 AugustBy mickeyHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I didn't even know who her inlaws were until today.
- Tuesday 25 AugustBy NancyHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Sad, sad, sad. No wonder she makes jokes about them!
- Tuesday 25 AugustBy NancyHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
And then again there's all the publicity she's getting from having her in-laws "sue" her.
- Tuesday 25 AugustBy jonzbeachHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Oh lighten up..she's funny. You will make more fools of yourself and perpetuate the stereotype by trying to litigate an act. Oh..wait...is you son (the lawyer?) going to try the case?
- Tuesday 25 AugustBy dAVEHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
sHE SHOULD REPLACE JOY B ON THE VIEW.
- Tuesday 25 AugustBy Marge Friend
You walk the razor's edge when you point out a certain person to bring before the public, especially in comedian language. She would have been safer making for a non-existant Aunt Lizzie.
- Tuesday 25 AugustBy jessHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Now if it was a Jewish woman with a black mother-n-law, all hell would have broke loose if jokes like this were told in public! Just another example of what is ok for one group, is not ok for anyone else! If you can dish it out, then you should learn how to take it! I would not sue, a waste of the courts time, but I bet this woman would sue in an instant if her mother-n-law started saying stero-typical jokes about her, now that I would like to see!
- Wednesday 26 AugustBy TravisHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I have to agree with Pott54 on this one. If you want to know exactly how much african-americans are able to laugh at themselves, watch the Big Black Comedy special. The comedian at the end is a heavy white guy that eventually touches on every race...funniest stand up I've ever seen. The point being that the audience was at least 95% black, and laughed their butts off when he was poking at them. I just think it's an individual response. I think jokes about white guys are funny, and hey, I'm a white guy!
- Friday 28 AugustBy Lee
I wonder what the "Reverand AL" would say about this double standard
- Tuesday 25 AugustBy LyricaldoveLowest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I think I worked for many years with Zunda's mother-in-law Ruth if it's the same Ruth Zafran. Ruth is a friendly, intelligent, and gracious woman. She doesn't deserve the hateful jokes about her. If she is suing, the jokes must really be over the top.
- Wednesday 26 AugustBy coleyHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Maybe its not the mother in law at all with the problem...just the encouragement she's getting from her daughter and son in law...hmmm is either of them an attorney???
- Tuesday 25 AugustBy jmuzikmonHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Ruthie is digging her own grave. Has she no vision of the consequences this vitriolic lawsuit is going to do to the entire family. A joke is not defamation in the eyes of the law. It becomes a he said, she said, situation, and the courts will uphold the free speech rights of Sunda Crooquist. Especially since that's how she makes her living. She is not using hate speach or accusing her Mother in Law of illegal activity, so no harm, no foul. Ruthie just might be causing an alienation that will rob her of her privelege to see her grandchildren. The courts have already ruled that grandparents have no rights of visitation if the parents refuse such. It is sad but maybe Ruthie should have been as open minded as her son in the first place.
- Tuesday 25 AugustBy LyricaldoveLowest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I commented before about Ruth. The Ruth I knew is open minded and loving. She must have really felt hurt to have sued.
- Wednesday 26 AugustBy natalie
not if your jewish lol
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There's a place where you can slow the hurried pace of daily life and listen to your inner voice - the one you don't always take the time to heed. We call this place the Centre at Naramata, and it's yours to explore.
Follow a winding road along benchland carved eons ago, chasing the sun through orchards and vineyards until you reach the serene shores of Lake Okanagan. Here, we have 26 acres to get lost in - and find yourself again.
Explore our summer programs, or design one for your group. We have adventures for children, youth, and adults. Learn about our environment - natural and cultural. Sing, write, paddle, or play. Find new stories to tell; the taller the tale, the better it is.
Life is busy. We spend precious hours away from family and friends in the pursuit of excellence in our vocation. If we ask of it, our workplace can be rewarding beyond financial compensation.
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With a stay at University Place Hotel & Conference Center in Portland, you'll be minutes from Portland Center Park and Lovejoy Fountain. This family-friendly hotel is within close proximity of The Dreamer and Pettygrove Park.
Make yourself at home in one of the 235 air-conditioned guestrooms. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and coffee/tea makers.
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Enjoy recreational amenities such as a 24-hour fitness center and a seasonal outdoor pool. Additional features include complimentary wireless Internet access, a fireplace in the lobby, and a television in the lobby.
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Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, luggage storage, and laundry facilities. Planning an event in Portland? This hotel has 8000 square feet (720 square meters) of space consisting of conference space and meeting rooms. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge during limited hours, and self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
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Ellis Island Ship List - Y
Follow the links to see a list of the ships that the Ellis Island Knapp's arrived on. Follow the links find information about these ships.
Built by Schichau Shipyard, Danzig, Germany, 1906. 8,901 gross tons; 462 (bp) feet long; 57 feet wide. Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screw. Service speed 14.5 knots. 2,078 passengers (108 first class, 112 second class, 1,858 third class).
Built for North German Lloyd, German flag, in 1906 and named Yorck. Bremerhaven-New York service. German hospital ship, 1914-15; laid-up 1915-19. Resumed in 1922. Scrapped in 1933.


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Xenia may mean:
- Xenia (Greek), the ancient Greek concept of hospitality
- Xenia motif, the representation of a host's generosity to his guests
- Xenia epigram, an epigram accompanying a present or gift
- Xenia (genus), a genus of coral
- Xenia (band), a former Yugoslav band
- Xenia (plants), pollen effects on seeds and fruits
- Xenia Orchidacea, a book in three volumes published 1858–1900, by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach & Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin
- Xenia (automobile), an American car
- Xenia (poetry), a 1966 anthology of poems by the Italian writer Eugenio Montale
- USS Xenia (AKA-51), an Artemis-class attack transport formerly of the United States Navy, renamed Presidente Errazuriz after transfer to Chile after 1946
- 625 Xenia, an asteroid discovered in 1907
- Daihatsu Xenia, also known as Toyota Avanza, a car
- Xenia (emulator), a PC emulator of the Xbox 360 console
- Xenia (film), a 2014 Greek film
- Xenia (Hotel), a now defunct chain of state-owned hotels in Greece
- Xenia (name), a romanization of the Cyrillic "Ксения", a feminine given name, more commonly anglicized as "Kseniya" or "Ksenia"
- Xenia (singer), a singer in the finals of season 1 of the TV series The Voice
- Xenia or Ed DeMattia (Animator)
- Xenia, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup X (mtDNA)
- Saint Xenia (disambiguation), several people
- Ksenia Godunova (1582–1622), Russian tsarevna
- Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875–1960), sister of Tsar Nicholas II
- Xenia Desni, Ukrainian actress of the silent era
- Xenia Onatopp, a fictional villain from James Bond's GoldenEye
- Xenia Seeberg, German actress best known for appearing in the science fiction television series Lexx
- Xenia Shestova, Russian nun and mother of Mikhail I of Russia
- Xenia Tchoumitcheva, Swiss/Russian fashion model
- Ksenija Pajčin (1977–2010), Serbian singer, dancer and model was sometimes referred to as Xenia or Xenija
- Xenia, Illinois, a village in Clay County
- Atlanta, Illinois (formerly known as "Xenia"), a city in Logan County
- Xenia, Kansas, an unincorporated community
- Xenia, Missouri, a former town
- Xenia, Ohio, a city in Greene County
- Xenia Township, Greene County, Ohio, near Xenia, Ohio
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Trailer for the documentary Garden in the Sea.
Thomas Riedelsheimer (Rivers and Tides, Touch the Sound) returns with another visually transfixing exploration of art and nature, this time chronicling the efforts of Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias as she installs an environmentally enhancing and aesthetically daring sculpture in the Sea of Cortez at Candelor Bay in Baja, CA.
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UPS Hub at Louisville International Airport
Most UPS Airlines flights go through the UPS WorldPort at Louisville International Airport
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The Louisville Airport is only considered International because of UPS, there are no International passenger flights out of the airport.
Fri Jun 02 04:41:17 -0700 2006 Here is some data about a 1 billion dollar expansion. Company officials said the Louisville air hub's sorting capacity will grow by 60 percent in the next five years to accomodate more than 487,000 packages per hour. The computerized sorting system installed four years ago will feature 197 miles of conveyors once the expansion is finished by 2010. The hub already has about 260 flights coming in and out of Louisville each day that connect it with more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. |


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With many vegetables already in the ground or soon-to-be planted, home gardeners can incorporate a few simple practices into their management programs to minimize diseases this growing season, said Kenny Seebold, extension plant pathologist for the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture. Growers should consult their seed supplier or catalog for the availability of disease-resistant varieties.
Central Kentucky Ag Credit has declared $1.3 million in patronage payments to association borrowers in the Bluegrass Region. The patronage payout is currently being made in full cash payments to members who were Ag Credit borrowers last year (2011). The 2011 patronage distribution is the largest in association history.
KSP reports that 2012 has already shown a spike in motorcycle-related crashes with a 69 percent increase from 2011 for the same time period. For this reason, KSP has decided to utilize their best asset for reaching the public - social media. With over 40,000 followers on Facebook(c), 2,900 followers on Twitter(c) and an active YouTube(c), Flickr(c) and Blogger(c) account, the agency plans to blast out motorcycle safety messaging via these platforms.
The Marion County Knights track team hosted a meet for the first time this season, and performed well. Despite only four teams showing up for the meet limiting the competition, both the boys and girls teams finished in first place overall. The boys team collected 197 points while the girls team collected 61 points. "We had a few teams that didn't show, so our times were not up to standard," Head Coach Keith Brown said. "Some of our kids just did not perform up to their capabilities." Coach Brown also commented on the preparation of the team.
The Lady Knights fell to Adair County 11-5 at home, and defeated Taylor County 4-2 on the road last week, taking their overall record to 8-3 and their district record to 1-1.
Marion County 4, Taylor County 2 The Marion County Lady Knights softball team traveled to Campbellsville to play Taylor County April 10. They were able defeat the Lady Cardinals 4-2, picking up their first district win of the season.
Offering statistics about autism is easy. Autism affects one out of every 88 children born in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The condition is more common among boys, affecting 1 in 54 males born in the U.S.
Understanding the day-to-day reality is harder to explain, although parents like Lisa Nally-Martin are hoping to raise awareness about the condition.
Gov. Steve Beshear recently appointed four people to the Kentucky Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education, and one of the appointees is from Marion County.
Jan Lanham of Gravel Switch, the principal at Cox's Creek Elementary School, was appointed as the parent representative on the council. Her term is scheduled to expire Dec. 15, 2014.
Eleven Marion County High School students have been chosen to participate in the Governor's Scholars Program this summer. They are Madison Avritt, Morgan Avritt, Jacob Burdette, Brad Gootee, Abigail Hagan, Abby Hamilton, Mary Helen Hamilton, Haberlin Roberts, Charles Shofner, Lauren Thim and Hannah Wilson.
Pope's Creek Ranch, the farm on Pope's Creek Road better known as Dr. James Bland's Golden Acres Farm, more recently named Pope's Creek Ranch, is private property and is currently closed to the public. In the near future, it will be open on a fee and permission-only basis for use by the public. Anyone with questions can contact David Neville at (502) 330-3027.


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Rebekah Brooks to pay full costs of Leveson inquiry out of £10.8m payoff
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has decided as a gesture of goodwill to pay for the entire costs of the inquiry into Culture, Practice and Ethics of the press led by Lord Leveson out of her £10.8 million severance package from News International.
The inquiry, which has so far cost the taxpayer up to £6m, was set up to examine the relationships between the media, politicians and the police which led to some people being paid enormous sums of money to either divulge sensitive information about private individuals, corporations or victims of crime, or to keep their mouths shut.
Emphasising that allegations of inappropriate payments from the press to the police and government officials were being investigated elsewhere in Operations Motorman and Elveden, the spokesman and paymaster for Mrs Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, said; 'This should in no way be seen as an inappropriate payment to a government appointed body for any favourable treatment, but it is only proper that the costs of advertising the merits of a free and fair press through a judge-led government inquiry which ultimately leads back to uncontrolled self-regulation should be met squarely with a generous donation from me, ..er, the people who have to implement it and, um, benefit from it through positive stories in the Sun.'
No. 10 Downing Street made it clear that they hadn't used Leveson to put any pressure on Mrs Brooks, merely hinting in no uncertain terms what might be seen to be 'appropriate', while stressing Christmas canapés as usual, 23rd, round at Dave's.
Mrs Brooks is also considering where else she might donate the remainder of the cash which, observers pointed out, might be tricky to spend in prison. 'It will go to charities, victim support groups, journalists who've lost their jobs through no fault of their own, that sort of thing, the things I stand for and believe in,' she said. 'And when it's all over I might get another horse. Oh for God's sake, I'll bloody well BUY another horse.'
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This well-known English village gets featured on everything from calendars to chocolate box lids!
Although mostly famous as being 'the prettiest village in England', Castle Combe dates back to Roman times. It later developed as a weaving town along with the rest of Wiltshire in the fifteenth century. It manufactured a red and white cloth known as 'Castlecombe'. Weaving was carried out in the 50 or so weaving cottages.
This particular location featured in the film Dr Doolittle which stared Rex Harrison. During this time a certain army officer by the name of Ranulph Fiennes became offended by the construction of an ugly concrete dam built to create a harbour scene. Fiennes planned to demolish the dam. He used explosives which he later claimed to have obtained legitimately from the armoury. Using skills from a recently completed training course on evading search dogs by night, he escaped capture, but he and a guilty colleague were both subsequently traced. After a court case, Fiennes had to pay a hefty fine and he and his co-conspirator were discharged from the SAS. Fiennes was initially posted to another cavalry regiment but was then allowed to return to his regiment.
I'm fortunate to live only a few miles away, so managed to capture this classic scene in the early morning before the tourist coaches arrived!
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Castle Coombe I believe. Where they filmed the dock scene in doctor Doolittle.
Great image. :)
Correct Richard.
And also where Sir Ranulph Fiennes imfamously planned to blow up the temporary dam which had been built to create the Dr Doolittle harbour as he was offended by it's construction in such a pretty village! As a result, he and a co-conspirator were discharged from the SAS.
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Excellent capture and view
Thank you Angi
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Stunner of a shot paul.
Thanks Jason
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A perfect view, Paul! I had the privilege of visiting there about ten years ago (but not in a coach!). – Pat
Thanks Pat – I'm lucky in that I live so close.
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Congratz on your feature in the Stream Crossings Group it is a beautyful image well done !!!!
Thanks Yool
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Congrats on your feature Paul. Snap!!
Thanks Howard.
I've only just logged-on, and what a suprise!
As you say…snap! ;-)
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Oh, I'd love to visit! Congrats on your feature! : )
Thanks Kay.
Yes, it's a beautiful place.
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so so beautiful ..magic
Thanks joak
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early bird gets the worm …or the great shot well done congrats on the feature
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The Victoria Freehouse Soft-Opens Tomorrow
Its opening finally brings an end to the long, sad saga that was Swanky Bubbles.
Its opening finally brings an end to the long, sad saga that was Swanky Bubbles.
Ralph Johnson is making Yorkshire pudding and duck-fat fries to accompany his traditional British supper.
Husband and wife Sonny and Sage Shemi, owners of Ma Jasmine, plan fish and chips and Indian wraps.
So far the offerings at the reworked Coach & Horses outshine the pub grub at a similarly reworked Tom Bergin's.
The reboot features a pub-inspired menu from a veteran of The Spotted Pig.
The domestic diva bought clay in prison with her commissary cash.
Louis Kim's crazy-herbs Korean-Italian hybrid is now serving the 90210.
Curtis Nysmith's next project will be a British pub with its own cask-brewed ale.
Look forward to hand-pulled cask ale and guest mixologists.
The game room space could eventually become a deli.
Despite the chatter, there are no plans for the two to open The Queen Vic pub in L.A..
Meanwhile, S. Irene Virbila lets WP24's awesome views and menu distract her from the contemporary pop music.
Even if soccer isn't your favorite sport, The World Cup offers a tremendous opportunity to try new cuisines.
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Keep your rockin' tables dry when you use these far out 80's coasters!
These 80's Personalized Coasters showcases your custom text on a white banner set against a black background full of checkerboard designs, shapes and paint splatters. Each Eighties Personalized Coaster measures 3 1/2 inches square and is made from pulp board. Sold in packages of 100.


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Mike had to be in work very early this morning so once I wrap up this post I have to get Bruce out for his walk. I'm looking forward to it though – I don't get to do it as often now because I have Will duty so it'll be nice to get some fresh air first thing. Will and I have a few errands we have to do and I'm still undecided on whether or not I want to go to the museum or the park. Maybe I'll do both – one in the morning, one in the afternoon – we can plan for late day activities now that the sun stays up longer. I love spring and I am excited for it's official arrival tomorrow! Have a great Friday!
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Did you hear the rumor about immediate retirement on full benefits for feds in Alaska and Hawaii? Or that the FERS flu sick leave problem will be solved by December? Well, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it's time to put some wild rumors to bed and he's called in an expert.
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Rudd blow for Canaries
Norwich City goalkeeper Declan Rudd has been ruled out of action for two months with a knee injury.
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Norwich City goalkeeper Declan Rudd has been ruled out of action for two months with a knee injury.
The 20-year-old has featured in Paul Lambert's side four times this season as back-up to first-choice keeper John Ruddy.
Teenager Jed Steer was brought in as reserve keeper for Saturday's 2-1 win at West Brom as a result of Rudd's injury.
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Lambert confirmed Rudd is set to undergo surgery which will rule him out for up to two months.
"Declan's hurt his ankle and it looks like he's going to be out for at least a couple of months," said Lambert.
The injury could force Lambert into the transfer market for a new goalkeeper and regarding any possible transfer activity in January, Lambert added: "I'll have to sit with my coaching team and see what we're going to do. I'll wait and see."


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Slashdot videos: Now with more Slashdot!
We've improved Slashdot's video section; now you can view our video interviews, product close-ups and site visits with all the usual Slashdot options to comment, share, etc. No more walled garden! It's a work in progress -- we hope you'll check it out (Learn more about the recent updates).
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Comment: Re:Are games still "Software" at all? (Score 1) 580
Comment: Re:What's unlawful (Score 1) 289
So you are saying that I can post confidential company information online, including trade secrets, and as long as it's on Facebook I'm covered? Sweet!
Comment: Re:I'm confused (Score 1) 307
But they're dedicated users and install base are. That's what Facebook was after.
Comment: Re:Vegas huh? (Score 2) 296
Copyright should be the bare minimum to protect innovation, not all inclusive to generate profits and exclusivity.
Comment: Re:The parent is responsible (Score 1) 279
A 9 year old usually can't walk in to a grocery store and buy a $6 box of Sugar-Cocaine-Pops without their parents knowing, and any parent with an ounce of common sense would let their child run free on a device that you can keep charging cash to.
And seriously, this guy didn't notice charges appearing on his credit card THAT HE USES ONLINE as it "drained"? I don't know about you, but any credit card # I put online for purchases I monitor like a fucking hawk with the amount of identity theft that's been going around.
Comment: Re:Uhh (Score 1) 356
Great, but they still broke the law, and caused me time and money fixing the situation.
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Comment: If doing this helps productivity (Score 1) 445
Comment: I get woken up at midnight to fix "design errors" (Score 1) 1303
Abuses should be found and stopped, but ask any of the people working for Foxconn if their life is better or worse off because of Foxconn (and by extension Apple), they'll probably say their life is much better with the high-tech manufacturing jobs.
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I'm not really sold on the idea that we need interactive textbooks, I've never had a textbook that wasn't very sufficiently searchable using the contents and index, and I don't see how you can keep a straight face and make the argument that a $400+ iPad is more durable than a $30 textbook, especially in a school environment where some textbooks can last for a decade or more.
Apple may want the iPad to be the standard with all their little monopolistic heart, but I just don't see it happening anywhere but in random charter or magnet schools who want to show everyone how hip they are with the new technology.
Why the hell would you WANT your child using a Textbook that's a decade old or more? That's part of the problem. When I was in high school (94-98), I had a social studies textbook which had a giant "USSR" label over the northern Asian continent.
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I find it akin to letting a Developer QA their own work. Bad Ju Ju.
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In the office I use a Win7 box, as is required. I have Win7 on my Mac Pro only for games. And then it's only for three (MW3, BF3, and as of today, Skyrim). If those games had Mac OS ports, I'd never use Windows on my personal machines ever again.
I never understood why tech people take the stance of "Oh you can't customize Mac OS as much as Windows, you can't put any hardware you want in it". That seems like a very small minority, at least at in my circle.
CAN I spend 5 hours hunting down a Windows driver issue or rebuilding my hardware from scratch? Yes. Do I WANT to spend time doing that? No. That's why I own Mac's.


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